Hindutva
Historic New Delhi mosque is the latest Muslim heritage site to face demolition
By Kaisar Andrabi — February 21, 2024
NEW DELHI (RNS) — The Sunehri mosque, architecturally significant and a time capsule of the early 20th century British plan for India’s capital, is said to be a traffic hazard.
Punjab’s ‘Aeroplane’ temple: Where India-Canada tensions meet Sikh anxiety
By Yashraj Sharma — October 16, 2023
JALANDHAR, India (RNS) — Thousands of families in Punjab — who have migrated for the Big Canadian Dream for decades — have found themselves left in the lurch by the transnational crisis.
Explaining the Hindu divide at the Parliament of the World’s Religions
By Anantanand Rambachan — August 23, 2023
(RNS) — It shouldn’t be hard to see why fusing of religious and national identity causes anxiety and fear.
The abuse of Christian women in Manipur tells a tragic story of the new India
By Joseph D'Souza — July 24, 2023
(RNS) — Indian authorities are ignoring attacks by radicalized Hindus on Christians.
A ‘pilgrimage of love’ seeks Indian Hindu leaders willing to condemn Hindu nationalism
By Nikhil Mandalaparthy — April 24, 2023
(RNS) — Past religious leaders have spoken against hate originating from their own religious traditions.
1 city, 2 people — and India’s widening religious divide
By Sheikh Saaliq — April 19, 2023
AYODHYA, India (AP) — A deeply entrenched religious divide presents India with one of its biggest challenges: How to safeguard freedoms for its Muslim minority when a rising tide of Hindu nationalism is eroding the country’s secular underpinnings.
Hindus only: How religious nationalism has spread through India’s villages
By Priyadarshini Sen — February 15, 2023
KADAPA, India (RNS) — A village of just 250 families put up a clear warning to non-Hindus wanting to enter.
How America can stop India’s anti-Christian crusade in its tracks
By David Curry — February 9, 2023
(Global Christian Relief) — The world’s largest democracy should be protecting the religious rights of all of its people.
Why they broke with Hindu nationalism: Four former zealots speak out
By Priyadarshini Sen — November 11, 2022
(RNS) — Participants in the destruction of a historic mosque 30 years ago, a signal event that led to a surge in Hindu nationalism in India, talk about their transformed lives.
Religious polarization in India seeping into US diaspora
By Mariam Fam and Deepa Bharath — October 17, 2022
(AP) — Hindu nationalism has split the Indian expatriate community just as Donald Trump’s presidency polarized the U.S., according to one expert.
India’s top court split on school ban on Muslim headscarves
By Ashok Sharma — October 14, 2022
NEW DELHI (AP) — The dispute began early this year when a government-run school in Karnataka’s Udupi district barred students wearing hijabs from entering classrooms.
India’s Hindu nationalism is exporting its Islamophobia
By Omar Suleiman — October 6, 2022
(RNS) — Hindutva is linking with other modern fascist movements across the globe.
Recent incidents from New York to California buttress concerns about Hinduphobia
By Richa Karmarkar — August 26, 2022
(RNS) — The attacks come just weeks after a Gandhi statue was vandalized and desecrated outside a Queens temple twice in less than a month.
How India’s ‘Hindutva pop’ stars use music to target Muslims
By Hanan Zaffar and Hamaad Habibullah — August 26, 2022
(RNS) — Observers say the increasingly popular genre is triggering violence against Muslims, a minority already marginalized by Hindu nationalists with support from the BJP government.
My Kali is queer: Resisting the homogenization of Hinduism
By Sunita Viswanath — July 11, 2022
(RNS) — A filmmaker is challenged for her depiction of the Hindu goddess.
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